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An Artist Paints Love and Life in Maputo, Mozambique
Drawn from archival photographs, memories, and imagination, Cassi Namoda's family portraits emanate warmth and comfort.
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The "Wrong Biennale" Seeks to Create the Right Conditions for Digital Art
Started as a way for digital and new media artists to circumvent the elitist infrastructure of art fairs, the Wrong hosts work online, for free. This year they've added a physical exhibition in Chicago.
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A Conversation About Sex Work in the Art World
Artists and sex workers will offer their insights at Public School Los Angeles.
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New Mexico Names Levi Romero as First Poet Laureate
The state’s first ever poet laureate is a bilingual lowrider, professor of Chicano studies, and trained architect who plans to travel the state in a 1958 Chevrolet Impala during his three-year term.
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An Artist Finds Inspiration in a Novel Suppressed Under Stalin
Irena Haiduk materializes the fictional spaces in Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, imbuing them with her own imagination and creating the alternative realities Bulgakov’s Stalinist government so feared.
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The Layers of History Behind Raphael’s Tapestries at the Sistine Chapel
Standing in the chapel last week, I had the feeling that I was seeing something I would never see again: the Sistine Chapel not just as a complete work of art, but as a complete cultural artifact, restored to its Renaissance appearance for a fleeting moment.
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NYC Cultural Workers Consider What Museums Can Do for Immigrant Communities
A colloquium at the NYU Steinhardt School plumbs the potential of art institutions to make an impact on immigrant lives.
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Juanita McNeely's Paintings Bare Pain and Resilience In Equal Measure
Looking at McNeely’s work through the lens of pain is almost inevitable, but it was a feat of strength for McNeely to paint some of these canvases at all, as doctors insisted she would never work at such a scale again.
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Remembering India’s Forgotten Artistic Masters
A new, first-of-its-kind exhibition in London spotlights painters associated with with Kampani Qalam, the Urdu name for the rich, hybrid art style associated with commissions for the East India Company.
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Art as Salve in the Age of Anxiety
In a city informed by mutual aid and communal practice, Tucson's American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings focuses on programming that is “soft,” “gentle,” and deeply relational.
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An Idiosyncratic Selection of California Art Presses
California has a rich history of artful book making. Here’s a small sampling of presses old and new.
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A Window Into Detroit's Rich History of Hand-painted Advertisements and Signs
One can find examples of vintage and contemporary hand-painted signs all over the Michigan city. Signs Galore!, an exhibition at KO Gallery, showcases some of this rich tradition.